Woe Upon Your Cylon Heart!

Day 22 → A website

Scouting NY

It's a really cool blog by this guy who scouts locations in and around NYC. He finds all sorts of neat things the average person would never notice, or would never find, and there are lots of gorgeous pictures.

Day 20 → A hobby of yours

I can crochet! That's about as much as a hobby as I can do, unless you count watching TV or shipping like I'm getting paid as a hobby.

I tried to find a youtube video of my favorite stitch, and... couldn't find it? Whatever. I know enough to make blankets and scarves, and that is enough for me.

Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy

I can't love a candy that's available year-round, can I? Nope, it's Cadbury eggs and Brach's candy corn. FML.

Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Auf Wiederseh'n, my dear- The Comedian Harmonists



( English version by Bing Crosby and my explanation as to why this song destroys me under the cut. )

Day 14 → A non-fictional book

I don't often read nonfiction books. I love biographies, but I haven't read one in a while this is a lie, the book I am showing you today is kind of a biography. Anyway, usually the nonfiction books I'm reading are for class, and while I'm sure you guys would be fascinated in life in Medieval Italy and Russia, I'll spare you and instead show you this gem.



It is no secret at all that I love Hollywood, especially the Golden age. This book is pretty much exclusively about that, ONLY WITH SOME KENNEDYS AND BRITISH ROYALTY TOSSED IN. Dominick Dunne like, Forrest Gumped his way through life and wound up meeting everyone worth knowing in the 50s and 60s. This book is really like a giant scrapbook- big font, lots and lots of pictures, fun anecdotes scattered about- but enough text that I really got a feel for their opulent, almost unbelievable lives then. (And then I flipping started reading Dominick Dunne's book Fatal Charms, which is a collection of essays he wrote for Vanity Fair. The first one is "Justice," which is about his daughter's murder trial, and I literally had to stop reading it because I was about to start crying in the library at school- and when I say "about to" I don't mean that in an exaggerated way, I mean, my eyes were full of tears and I had a lump in my throat. He is an amazing author, and the trial was a horrendous miscarriage of justice.)

Anyway, even if you just like old pictures of Natalie Wood reapplying her lipstick in a knife's blade at the dinner table, or reading anecdotes about Warren Beatty playing piano at Sunday brunch, or hearing how Dominick Dunne's little girl curtsied when she was four and met The Beatles, I suggest picking it up.